Informing Writing: The Benefits of Formative Assessment
This publication from 2011 focuses on the effectiveness of formative writing (teacher feedback, student assessment, and ongoing monitoring) and offers best practices for assessment (allow paper/pencil or word processing, mask student names when scoring, and use multiple samples). Like Writing Next (2007) and Writing to Read (2010) – both available in this resource library – it is a meta-analysis of large-scale research studies.